Tagged Phil Bregman

Free Loan is new JFSA partner

The Free Loan at the Federation Coordinator Yana Krone and Board President Phil Bregman review new brochures with Susannah Castro. /Debe Campbell, AJP
September 27, 2019 / Phyllis Braun, AJP Executive Editor

For more than 70 years, the Hebrew Free Loan Association of Tucson was “an autonomous mom and pop operation,” quietly going about its good work of providing interest-free financial assistance to thousands of Tucsonans, says board president Phil Bregman. In fact, Bregman has called it “the best-kept secret in… Read more »

Hebrew Free Loan of Tucson expands with employee assistance program

The Hebrew Free Loan Association of Tucson helps community members thrive. (Courtesy Hebrew Free Loan Association of Tucson)
December 7, 2018 / Phyllis Braun, AJP Executive Editor

The Hebrew Free Loan Association of Tucson has been around since 1947. Although it provides an invaluable service — granting interest-free financial assistance to those in need — its longtime president, Phil Bregman, has often called the association “the best kept secret in town.” But in the past nine… Read more »

JFSA helping synagogues boost youth engagement

Cantorial soloist Marjorie Hochberg guides Temple Emanu-El religious school students in singing the Four Questions at a second night Passover seder in 2015. (Steve Shawl)
July 6, 2017 / Phyllis Braun, AJP Executive Editor

Declining youth engagement has been a problem facing synagogues across the country for a decade or more.  To help local synagogues reverse this trend, the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona is providing them with new allocations for religious schools and family education programs. Each synagogue will decide how to… Read more »

At jubilee, Handmaker looks to past success, new collaboration
October 10, 2013 / Phyllis Braun, AJP Executive Editor
I.H. “Murf” and Mae Handmaker started the process for a Jewish geriatric home in Tucson in the 1950s.

Handmaker Jewish Services for the Aging is celebrating its 50th anniversary jubilee with a black-tie gala next month. Hirsch Handmaker, a physician in Phoenix, remembers how his parents, Mae and I. H. “Murf” Handmaker, came up with the idea for a Jewish geriatric home in Tucson. “My maternal grandmother,… Read more »